A charity in Udaipur has set a new record by performing surgery to repair 61,026 people from India and abroad since 2017, while treating cases of polio, cerebral palsy and other birth defects. The institutional hospital continued to perform surgery during the COVID-19 violence.
Apart from Indian patients, those from Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Britain and the U.S. free surgery at the Narayan Seva Sansthan (NSS) campus in Udaipur. More than 5,100 patients underwent surgery in 2020 during the epidemic, compared to 16,734 in 2019.
In 2021, only 2,566 patients underwent surgery for the second wave of the epidemic, using medical infrastructure to save the lives of infected patients. Corrective surgery has enabled patients, many of whom come from impoverished families, to be able to walk and live normal lives.
NSS president Prashant Agarwal told The Hindu on Thursday that people with disabilities are being treated at the hospital through the Ilizarov surgical procedure, which involves external repairs to amplify or reshape bones. Bone growth achieved by the gradual disruption of long-term bone deformity was found to provide improved performance among patients, he said.
With very few poor families coming to treat their disabled members separately from the poverty caused by the epidemic, the NSS organized specialized surgical camps and provided skills training so that they could earn a living and be able to be part of the epidemic. ordinary society.
Mr. Agarwal said a team of five different people with disabilities, who were rehabilitated at NSS after their surgery, provided health advice to people with similar disabilities live on social media during the 2020 epidemic. Udaipur doctors teamed up with them to provide medical advice to the needy.
The NSS has undertaken activities such as the distribution of prosthetics, skills training, health care support and free meals and numerous wedding events for various disabled people.